Education

Josefina is a Certified Coach by Newfield Consulting; Associated Certified-Meta-Coach by International Society of Neuro-Semantics; Executive Coach by Salom Change Dynamics; is a designated Team Coach by CCE International Coach Federation; and she has a Birkman Method Certification. She actively participates in career coaching and mentoring programs with executives.

Koichi is an Executive Advisor in Tokyo for the Board & CEO, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Energy & Natural Resource Practices. Concurrently, he serves for a few global energy companies as a board member and is one of the original members of Geniisis in San Francisco that represents people of “genius” such as the heads of major R&D centres, star professors and Nobel prize-winners from the global market.

Chris Reece has been active in the world of Strategic Leadership and Human Capital Management for more than twenty-five years.

Chris supports the New York & Boston offices of EMA Partners. He has conducted over 250 executive searches and numerous organisational assessments and executive and management assessments. Chris has conducted assignments in all functional areas with an emphasis on executive and general management level searches. These organisations have ranged in size from entrepreneurial start-ups to billion dollar corporations.

Danny Zhang has 20 years of experience as an Executive Search practitioner. He also specializes in Talent Mapping, and Business Strategy in the IT, Internet, Manufacturing and Hospitality industries. Over the years, he has worked closely for recruitment with Fortune 500 companies and large private enterprises for positions in top Management, to head sectors like Legal, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, and Supply Chain, amongst others. 

Alex is the Managing Partner in Tokyo responsible for Consumer, Retail & Services, Industrial (consisting of Performance & Specialty Chemicals), Food Ingredients, Building & Construction, and a member of Government & Non-Profit Practices. He specialises in Management Search & C-suite Retained Recruiting Services.

Ana Paola is a Senior Consultant at our office in Mexico. She has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources, 8 of them within Executive Search, managing senior and mid-level assignments from multinational to family/privately-owned companies and start-ups.

Ana’s experience includes a variety of sectors including Consumer Goods, Cosmetics, Health, Retail Luxury, Finance, Digital, Advertising within areas such as Human Resources, Marketing and Sales.

Capucine graduated with a Master's degree in Management from Paris Dauphine University, after which she completed a Master's degree in International Finance. Capucine passed the third level of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination in 2015. After a 12 year experience in the Investment Banking industry as a Financial Engineer and then an originator within different departments such as Equity derivatives, Commodities, Energy and Structured Financing where she covered various geographical areas including Spain, Russia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Turkey and South-Africa.

As a Managing Partner Jo has over twenty years of search experience and has successfully executed numerous searches at the senior executive and Board level. Additionally, Jo leads the intermediate level practice for EMA Partner’s New York and Toronto offices and is a senior member of the firm’s Digital, Fintech, Payments, Financial Services and Technology Practice Groups.

Francisco is a member of the Board of Directors of several companies in the services sector and non-profit organisations.

Since 2000, he has occupied managerial responsibilities at the field of business schools. The last 7 years at IESE Business School as Director of Programmes in the area of Executive Education, first in Madrid and then in Barcelona, working with a large number of managers and major national and international companies. In 2014, he joins Status | EMA Partners Spain as Consulting Partner.

Ben is a Managing Partner in Tokyo responsible for the Industrial Practice, and member of the Global Healthcare & Life Sciences and Global Technology & Communications Practices. With over 13 years of experience in executive search consulting in Japan, he has a successful track record in placing executives in senior management positions for multinational companies operating in Japan.